Ayutthaya high-speed crash: Prosecutors to contest Jenphop's insanity defense

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Prosecutors to contest Jenphop's insanity defense

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter -

 

Jenphop Viraporn is ordained as a monk in a ceremony on May 9 at Wat Soontorn Thamtan in Bangkok. He left the monkhood several weeks later.

 

BANGKOK — Prosecutors will ask the court to dismiss Jenphop Viraporn’s claim he is mentally unfit to stand trial for double vehicular manslaughter, a lawyer for one of the victims’ families said Wednesday.

 

In the aftermath of the high-speed crash that killed two graduate students in March on an Ayutthaya highway, Jenphop confessed to all charges except reckless driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The millionaire’s insanity defense means the court case against him could go on for several years.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2016/11/02/prosecutors-contest-jenphops-insanity-defense/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2016-11-03

[Alive]

I think any sane person who kills someone and tries to hide that truth by becoming another lie by being a 'monk' will eventually go insane. His future is hopeless. Whether he sees jail or not he will be tormented for life. I wonder what the people who go to his temple feel knowing his story.

[CelticBhoy]

The faces of the "real" monks say it all for me.

[leeneeds]

Justice for the victims and a little sanity for their families 

would be a fanciful wish on my part,

it is to bad that money over rides 

the law.

[jaltsc]

"Prosecutors will ask the court to dismiss Jenphop Viraporn’s claim he is mentally unfit to stand trial for double vehicular manslaughter..." 

 

Having an antisocial personality disorder which causes him to discount the value of other people's lives and not care about them, doesn't make him unfit to stand trial. It just makes him unfit to be let out among the public. Prison sounds like the perfect treatment for his "mental disorder". 

[lostinisaan]

1 hour ago, Alive said:

I think any sane person who kills someone and tries to hide that truth by becoming another lie by being a 'monk' will eventually go insane. His future is hopeless. Whether he sees jail or not he will be tormented for life. I wonder what the people who go to his temple feel knowing his story.

 

 

 Sorry, but he's just doing what many others here would do.

 

             

[z42]

A spineless, despicable turd. What else is there to possibly say about this individual?

[waldroj]

"...The delayed investigation led to accusations on social media that police were attempting to shield the millionaire from justice as in other high-profile cases involving the wealthy and well-connected..."

 

From time to time we see TV posters getting lampooned (usually, by Siamophiles or Trolls) for airing their opinions of events in Thailand that go against their "farang" values and beliefs. And, in some cases this involves cultural ignorance or bigotry, and the criticism is probably deserved.

 

However, there are certain events (that happen in Thailand) that do deserve ridicule - even from TV posters.

 

And, in that regard, one would have to think that Jenphop's insanity defense and the actions of police involved in this affair probable pass the Duck Test (https://is.gd/WzTsmZ) !!!

 

[daveAustin]

1 hour ago, CelticBhoy said:

The faces of the "real" monks say it all for me.

 

I noticed the same at first, but then realised monks generally always look indifferent (sort of disconnected, a bit switched off).

 

You can laugh, but I initially had very high hopes that case like this (the batty female yesterday, the Red Bull clown) of the moneyed doing wrong would be nipped in the bud by the current government. I was wrong. Just more of the same.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, CelticBhoy said:

The faces of the "real" monks say it all for me.

 

The Monks should have rejected him outright. They could have and should have seen how insincere he was. Not insane enough to drive. Only a cowardly denial, and fear of taking responsibility and paying the price. He killed two people! A half man with cash attempts to walk away. 

[NongKhaiKid]

4 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 

The Monks should have rejected him outright. They could have and should have seen how insincere he was. Not insane enough to drive. Only a cowardly denial, and fear of taking responsibility and paying the price. He killed two people! A half man with cash attempts to walk away. 

Would a cash donation to the temple not have proved his sincerity to the monks ?

Yes it is amazing how easily people can become ' monks ' but I suppose the excuse is that it will change them.

[tx22cb]

Insanity plea?? Bull crap!

Affluenza more like. 

[rkidlad]

1 hour ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 Sorry, but he's just doing what many others here would do.

 

             

You mean go out driving your car like a mad man all hopped up on meds (and god knows what else)? No, most of us wouldn't do that.

 

Oh, you mean trying to save yourself from jail? Well, maybe many of us would do everything we could to avoid jail, but that's moot anyway as we wouldn't have done the first part. 

[freebyrd]

2 hours ago, Alive said:

I think any sane person who kills someone and tries to hide that truth by becoming another lie by being a 'monk' will eventually go insane. His future is hopeless. Whether he sees jail or not he will be tormented for life. I wonder what the people who go to his temple feel knowing his story.

 

Will a personality like this really be 'tortured'? I would offer that such a heartless individual hasn't lost a wink of sleep over his actions.

[freebyrd]

1 hour ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 Sorry, but he's just doing what many others here would do.

 

             

 

That doesn't make it acceptable.

[lostinisaan]

12 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

You mean go out driving your car like a mad man all hopped up on meds (and god knows what else)? No, most of us wouldn't do that.

 

Oh, you mean trying to save yourself from jail? Well, maybe many of us would do everything we could to avoid jail, but that's moot anyway as we wouldn't have done the first part. 

 

 

   Sorry, but I didn't take his side at all. Killers, child molesters ( those who get caught) and others who take other peoples' life, or destroy it become a monk for a few weeks.

 

   But please look at Roman Catholics and you'll find a similarity. This is how they avoid prison, nobody would take them out of a temple.

 

     Thanks for the lesson. 

[cardinalblue]

Vehicular manslaughter and gross negligence behind....insanity claim is bogus...

 

why did he depart monkhood after 3 weeks? Should be lifetime unless sentenced to prison....

[captspectre]

2 hours ago, Alive said:

I think any sane person who kills someone and tries to hide that truth by becoming another lie by being a 'monk' will eventually go insane. His future is hopeless. Whether he sees jail or not he will be tormented for life. I wonder what the people who go to his temple feel knowing his story.

I do not agree with the "go" insane bit! a person can be heartless, not give a dam about anyone and thinks of only himself especially when he has grown up thinking he is better than the regular folks and can do what the hell he pleases! this is such a scum bag! he has never thought of anyone but himself and  this mentality is rampant in thailand! just look at the past rich fools who have killed innocent people and are still walking around free! the red bull punk, the former PM who ran off and became a monk after murdering many protesters! the list is to long for here but you can google it! this has been going on in Thailand for at least the 44 years that I have been here!

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed as well as a reply.

[alfalfa19]

3 hours ago, Alive said:

I think any sane person who kills someone and tries to hide that truth by becoming another lie by being a 'monk' will eventually go insane. His future is hopeless. Whether he sees jail or not he will be tormented for life. I wonder what the people who go to his temple feel knowing his story.

for the most part, I agree with you.  however, i have known people who are never tormented by their misdeeds, no matter how heinous.  maybe in the next life. 

[Retiredandhappyhere]

If anyone had accused him of being insane before the accident, that person would have ended up in jail on defamation charges, but now he wants us all to believe that he is insane.   Strange that!  

 

Hopefully, this will at least be one case where the rich and famous actually pay the correct price for their crimes and not only in terms of money.

[irwinfc]

his insanity is more likely a consequence of what he did, rather than its cause. no excuses for him

[stephenterry]

Well, lock him up in a mental institution for the rest of his natural - that's if a secure one exists.

[Retiredandhappyhere]

As a previous poster indicated, this spoilt man-child would not be so concerned about his killing of two innocent, and in his eyes no doubt unimportant, people by reckless driving as to be driven insane. His only concern would be how to extract himself from the situation without any undue discomfort to himself.  He probably thought that his 3 weeks as a fictitious monk was more than enough to compensate for any alleged misdeed and is , no doubt, suffering from shock rather than insanity that things have gone this far, since he probably understood that daddy would take care of it for him.

[chilli42]

3 hours ago, Alive said:

I think any sane person who kills someone and tries to hide that truth by becoming another lie by being a 'monk' will eventually go insane. His future is hopeless. Whether he sees jail or not he will be tormented for life. I wonder what the people who go to his temple feel knowing his story.

 

I would like to think you are right as he deserves the torment.  However, I am not convinced he is imbued with sufficient conscience to feel regret.

[me in BKK]

another case of a Thai millionaire son getting away with murder!!  How many more times until the justice system is taking responsibility??

[adhd]

a real thai monk, does that even exist in this country?

 

as any fugitive can conveniently become a monk to evade prison ?

 

if you see what happens to little monks, those poor kids dropped by their parents and then being abused by the "real" monks... they might turn into the monsters themself

[AlQaholic]

3 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

The faces of the "real" monks say it all for me.

Yeah, they all went through the same.......

[Sydebolle]

Set an example, lock him up for good and throw away the key. Good riddance and, if repeated with some other HiSo <deleted> even their mindset might start to settle for the fact, that not everything can be made "going away" like that. 
I am also surprised that temples remain a refuge for almost anything and anybody ........

[Honthy]

How could it match? Insanity and being monk... It is against the fame of the other monks and religion I should say.